EXHIBITION: PATTERN LANGUAGE: CLOTHING AS COMMUNICATOR July 7 - August 27, 2006 / University Art Museum CONFERENCE:Languages and Genes an Interdisciplinary Conference Friday / September 8th - 10th...
Isabelle Clark-Decès (Anthropology, Princeton University) Friday, May 19 / 3:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In this lecture Isabelle Clark-Decès explored new paradigms for the study of South Asian rituals, drawing on her field research on a Tamil ritual that is performed in times...
Moinak Biswas (Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta) Friday, April 28 / 1:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture explored how the rise to stardom of Uttam Kumar (1926-1980)—who is considered the most successful actor in Bengali cinema—coincided with the fashioning of a new...
TALK: Doing Race Research in Education in the New Civil Rights Era Mica Pollock (Graduate School of Education, Harvard) Thursday, April 6 /12:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Theater ...
Linda Hess (Religious Studies, Stanford University) Friday, March 3 / 2:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building After a brief reflection on the bias towards text-based methods in Religious Studies, the lecture addressed the all-pervasive importance of oral transmission, music, and other performance forms in...
Olle Qvarnström (History of Religions, Lund University, Sweden) Tuesday, February 28 / 6:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Science Building The lecture examined contending constructions of omniscience in Jain and Purva-Mimamsa philosophical traditions. Olle Qvarnström is Professor of the History of Religions at Lund University, Sweden. One...
Friday, January 27 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Following our successful inaugural conference on South Asian Studies in the United States in the fall, we invited all interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a planning meeting of the South...
CONFERENCE: Disciplining the Horn: Taming an Unruly Instrument Saturday-Sunday, January 7-8 / 9:00 AM Registration / Music Building MUSIC AS MEDIA RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP Co-Conveners, John Hajda and...